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[:es]Mysterious chemical found in dead cat’s brain reopens debate over mercury poisoning disaster[:]

[:es]The city of Minamata, Japan, is dotted with monuments commemorating victims of an industrial mass poisoning decades ago. High in the hills, a small stone memorial honors other deaths—of cats […]
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[:es]Cellphone tracking could help stem the spread of coronavirus. Is privacy the price?[:]

[:es]“IT IS POSSIBLE TO STOP THE EPIDEMIC.” That’s the message splashed atop a website built by a University of Oxford team this week to share new research on the spread […]
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[:es]Why did nearly a million king penguins vanish without a trace?[:]

[:es]Where on Earth, wondered Henri Weimerskirch, were all the penguins? It was early 2017. Colleagues had sent the seabird ecologist aerial photos of Île aux Cochons, a barren volcanic island […]
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[:es]Newly discovered ‘magic methyl’ reaction could turbocharge the potency of some drugs[:]

[:es]For years, drug discovery chemists have struggled to streamline a process that can boost a drug’s potency up to 2000-fold: “magic methylation.” The reaction sweeps out single hydrogen atoms and […]
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[:es]3400-year-old ballgame court unearthed in mountains of Mexico[:]

[:es]In 2015, archaeologists Jeffrey Blomster and Víctor Salazar Chávez began excavating the Mexican site of Etlatongo, a 3400-year-old village in the mountains of Oaxaca. They chose a spot in the […]
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[:es]Ancient amber contains a cockroach—and a surprise[:]

[:es]Look closely at this piece of fossilized amber and you’ll spot something unusual: a cockroach trapped with its own feces (arrow).[:]
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[:es]New drugs aim to disarm the immune system’s ‘atomic bomb’ cells[:]

[:es]Seeking a new treatment for people who have dangerous blockages in their coronary arteries, doctors in London are trying to disarm the body’s own defenders. The 90 patients in the […]
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[:es]Minimuscles let amputees control a robot hand with their minds[:]

[:es]Building a beautiful robotic hand is one thing. Getting it to do your bidding is another. For all the hand-shaped prostheses designed to bend each intricate joint on cue, there’s […]
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[:es]Was this life’s first meal?[:]

[:es]Studies of the origin of life are replete with paradoxes. Take this doozy: Every known organism on Earth uses a suite of proteins—and the DNA that helps build it—to construct […]